Operation Crossroads, Test Baker as seen from Bikini Atoll, July 25, 1946

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Test Baker, 21 kiloton yield, was the second nuclear explosion of Operation Crossroads. The bomb was suspended 90 feet underneath LSM 60 to create an underwater explosion. Detonated at 8:35 A.M. on July 25, 1946. This image was taken from Bikini Island by an automatic camera about 2 1/2 miles away from the blast. Lauren R. Donaldson was in the Marshall Islands aboard the USS HAVEN as a radiation monitor on the Radioactivity Group during Operat...
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Test Baker, 21 kiloton yield, was the second nuclear explosion of Operation Crossroads. The bomb was suspended 90 feet underneath LSM 60 to create an underwater explosion. Detonated at 8:35 A.M. on July 25, 1946. This image was taken from Bikini Island by an automatic camera about 2 1/2 miles away from the blast. Lauren R. Donaldson was in the Marshall Islands aboard the USS HAVEN as a radiation monitor on the Radioactivity Group during Operation Crossroads.
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Photographimage17.6 x 9 in.Scanned from an original photograph using a Microtek ScanMaker 9800XL in RGB at 200-400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, changed to indexed color, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2007